Martin Luther's Mistakes

When people hear the name Martin Luther, they probably would automatically think of Martin Luther King Jr, this is a common mistake and some people haven’t really heard of who he was. Martin Luther was the leader of the Protestant Reformation, was born at Eisleben, Prussian Saxony on November 10, 1483. He wrote problems concerning the church, he wanted to express out loud, so everyone knew how he felt. Martin Luther’s starting-point of his career as a reformer was him posting on a church door, Ninety-five Opinions on October 31, 1517. They formed a passionate statement of the true nature of atonement, and a protest against the sale of indulgences. In issuing the Opinions, Luther expected the support of his religious superiors; and it was only

after three years of disagreement, that he ensued to publish those works, which brought about his dismissal from the Church. In stating that, this brings us solving the reasoning of what Martin Luther meant in his article, when he wrote the Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation and in what ways he challenged the church. How he felt about the religious officials in the church, and the officials who called themselves Christians.
In the Address to the Christian Nobility, Martin Luther began by attacking the three walls of the Roman Catholic Church.

He was very forceful and hurried right to the point. He ended it by listing a series of abuses which he believed should be corrected by the secular authorities, not by religious councils. Concerning Christian Liberty, the reformation of the political aspect, he declares the true God-ordained and holy characteristic of every human relationship of the family, home, trade, or profession for people from all levels of society. This all means that, no occupation is to be considered more “holy” than any other; for the German aspect, he appeals to the mass of the German people by exposing the greatest source of the evils that oppress them: the Roman Catholic system and the pope himself. The First Wall that Martin Luther attack was the Spiritual Power over Temporal, it essentially was saying that the "world" should influence the spiritual authority in the Church. The second wall was the Authority to Interpret Scripture, mainly he meant the breaking away from the rules and traditions of the Catholic Church. Specifically, Martin Luther is removing the authority of the Pope on matters of faith and doctrine. The Third and final wall was the Authority to Call a Council, this meant that Luther wanted to bring the spiritual authority to the secular once again to allow anyone to call councils to discuss and rule on matters of faith and doctrine. Martin Luther makes it

clear that people thought that the Pope, bishops, priests, and monks were the spiritual estate, and princes, lords, artificers, and peasants, were the temporal estate. He wanted them to understand that everyone is the same, and that we all are one; that we are all sanctioned to one baptism, one faith, and one Gospel.
In conclusion, Martin Luther’s opinion on the topic in the article was very strong and encouraging then as it is now. Martin Luther made good judgements saying that even though you may have some high authority in church, it doesn’t give you the right to think of yourself as a god; that everyone is in the same boat when it comes to choosing how they want to live there faith. That everyone is a spiritual estate, along with being temporal. From a viewpoint of five hundred years, Martin Luther's teachings about the priesthood of the believer may appear to be normal. Though, at that time when Rome held political and religious power over the nations, those teachings were regarded as being revolutionary.